Xiamen Bay is an important economic region for Xiamen as well as the whole of Fujian Province.[4] The bay has numerous port, transport infrastructure, shipbuilding and petrochemical industries.[5] The local government has set up various development areas such as the Xiamen Bay Photoelectric Industrial City to promote economic development.[5]
Due to rapid economic development and industrialization in Xiamen, the bay has been tested for traces of heavy metal contamination.[3][6]
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^ abZhang, Luoping; Feng, Huan; Li, Xiaoxia; Ye, Xin; Jing, Youhai; Ouyang, Tong; Yu, Xingtian; Liang, Rongyuan; Chen, Weiqi (2009), "Heavy metal contaminant remediation study of western Xiamen Bay sediment, China: Laboratory bench scale testing results", Journal of Hazardous Materials, 172 (1): 108–16, doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.06.138, PMID19631459
^Y. M. Yeung, Jianfa Shen, 2008, The Pan-Pearl River Delta: an emerging regional economy in a globalizing China, Chinese University Press, ISBN962-996-376-0, ISBN978-962-996-376-7, pp. 125–126
